I. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer.

Learning English as a foreign language and (1) ________ people are making a living from English in various forms. In Britain, the English language is one of the country’s mostimportant sources of income.

English is quite unique in the history of the world’s language: an amazing one in seven people (2) ________ the world speak it, which makes it undoubtedly (3) ____________ first world language in history. Before English, Latin, French and Greek were also to some extent international languages (4) ____________ none of them ever managed to reach the number of users that English has. 75% of the world’s correspondence and 60% of the world’s telephone conversations are carried out in English. Chinese also has a billion speakers. But when a Chinese businessman meets a Spanish colleague at a conference , they will almost certainly use English as a media of (5 ) __________, not Chinese or Spanish. English has also become the language of science and numerous people choose it as part of their studies.

1. A. any                    B. much                      C. a lot                                    D. many

2. A . at                       B. on                           C.in                                         D. with

3. A. the                     B. an                           C. a                                         D.Ø

4. A. but                     B. or                            C. therefore                           D. so